Part of Holiday Classics
Babe is a piglet when he finds himself in the gentle care of Farmer Arthur Hoggett (James Cromwell). After narrowly escaping becoming a dish in the family’s Christmas dinner, Babe gleefully surrenders to a life on the farm with the other animals — but he refuses to conform to traditional piggy behavior. Determined to trot his own trail, Babe must prove to the other animals that he’s got what it takes to go places that no pig has ever gone before.
Nominated for seven Academy Awards in 1996 — and winning for Best Visual Effects — BABE remains one of the most beloved family films in history nearly three decades on.
“The all-time great talking-pig movie, a lovely, intelligent gem of G-rated entertainment that is also rib-tickling funny…. BABE is a brilliant metaphorical glimpse at how one creature, marching earnestly to its own drummer, unwittingly challenges the order of things.” —Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle
“Call me swine-phobic, but the last thing I wanted to see was a moving comedy about a pig. But after grunting my way into BABE, I came out squealing with pleasure. A hilarious fantasy, about a plucky piglet that learns how to tend sheep, BABE is a barnyard charmer.” —Desson Thomson, Washington Post